Pakistan Expands Probe Into Nuclear-weapons Lab

The World - In Brief

January 19, 2004

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan has expanded an investigation of its premier nuclear-weapons laboratory, detaining as many as seven scientists and administrators amid allegations that sensitive technology may have spread to countries such as Iran, North Korea and Libya, officials said Sunday. Pakistan has strongly denied any official involvement in sharing technology to those countries but has acknowledged that individual scientists acting on their own may have leaked information.